Training Events & Materials

The Poverty Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation Thematic Group periodically organizes seminars, workshops, brown-bag lunches (BBLs), and training events. The announcements, presentations and papers presented at the events are archived here. Please click on the name of the event to access these materials (Use the free Adobe Acrobat Readerto view them).

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DATE	EVENT	PRESENTERS
2009
May 19	Uruguay: Poverty and Social Impact Assessment of the Recent Tax Reform	Emily Sinnott
May 5	For Peace and Goodwill? Using an Experimental Game and a Social Dilemma to Analyze the Effect of Desarollo y Paz in Colombia	Luca Pellerano (Oxford Policy Management Ltd.)
Apr 29-30	Impact Evaluation of Poverty Alleviation Programs & Institutional Reforms
Apr 28-30	Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impacts of Economy-Wide Policies (Module 7 of Poverty and Inequality Analysis Course)	B. Essama-Nssah
Apr 21	Measuring the Quality of Education and Health Services: The Use of Perception Data from Indonesia	Basab Dasgupta, Ambar Narayan and Emmanuel Skoufias
Mar 19	On the Distributional Implications of Climate Change: A Methodological Framework and Application to Rural India	Hanan Jacoby, Emmanuel Skoufias and Mariano Rabassa
Feb 2	Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean	Jaime Saavedra
2008
Jul 23	The Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers on Consumption and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico	Emmanuel Skoufias
Apr 21-23	PREM Week 2008: Assessing Programs and Policies Using Impact Evaluation and PSIA
Apr 14-15	Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Economy-Wide Policies (Module 7 of Poverty and Inequality Analysis Course)	B. Essama-Nssah
Mar 31	The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Kenya	David Evans
Jan 15-16	Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making
2007
Dec 4	Beating the Odds: Sustaining Inclusion in a Growing Economy -- A Mozambique Poverty, Gender and Social Assessment	Louise Fox and Malcolm Ehrenpreis
Nov 20	Can Future Shared Growth Diagnostics Help Governments Avoid Repeating Past Mistakes? Reflections from Uganda CEM	Dino Leonardo Merotto
Nov 6	Does CDD Work? Emerging Evidence from the KALAHI-CIDSS Project in the Philippines	Julien Labonne
Nov 5	Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique	Channing Arndt (Purdue University)
Nov 1	Shared Growth in Ghana - Integrating Growth and Poverty Analysis in the Ghana CEM	Zeljko Bogetic and Quentin Wodon
Oct 9	New Directions in Catastrophe Risk Models	Richard Murnane (Baseline Management Company, Inc., and Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)
Oct 2	Determinants of the Growth Semi-Elasticity of Poverty Reduction	Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen)
Jun 12	Guidelines for Impact Evaluations in the Water and Sanitation Sector	Christine Poulos and Subhrendu Pattanayak (RTI International)
May 31	Does Employment Generation Matter for Poverty Reduction?	Catalina Gutierrez and Pierella Paci
May 10	Outside Funding and the Dynamics of Participation in Community Associations	Michael Kremer
May 8	Poverty Assessments in a Can	Michael Lokshin
Apr 17-19	The Ins and Outs of Impact Evaluation and PSIA
Apr 16-17	Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Economy-Wide Policies (Module 7 of Poverty and Inequality Analysis Course)	B. Essama-Nssah
Apr 3	Social Safety Nets and Subsidy Reform in Egypt: Toward More Effective Policies	John Blomquist
Mar 13	The Urbanization of Global Poverty	Martin Ravallion
Feb 21	Impact Evaluation of Jamaica's Program of Advancement Through Health and Education	Dan Levy and Jim Ohls (Mathematica Policy Research)
Feb 12	Microfinance and Home Improvement: Using Retrospective Panel Data to Measure Program Effects on Discrete Events	Bruce Wydick (University of San Francisco)
2006
Dec 12	Early Childhood Development: Promoting the Well Being of Children and Families	Craig Ramey (Georgetown University)
Oct 24	Assessing the Poverty Impact of Economic Growth: The Case of Indonesia	B. Essama-Nssah
Oct 17	The Unique Face of Poverty and Vulnerability in Zambia: Shocks, Deteriorating Economic Conditions, and HIV/AIDS	Valerie Kozel
Oct 5	Impact Evaluation for Rural Roads	Dominique Van de Walle, John Hine, Celeste Tarricone and Anne Rothbaum
Sep 26	Benefit Incidence and Targeting Performance: A New Framework with Application to Subsidies for Infrastructure and Human Development in Africa	Diego Angel-Urdinola, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, and Quentin Wodon
May 15, 16, 18, 19	Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies within the PAMS Framework	B. Essama-Nssah
May 11	More than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions
Apr 27-28	Measuring Service Delivery
April 11	Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Report on Growth, Poverty and Inequality	Ruslan Yemtsov
Mar 29	Approaches to Impact Evaluation in Microfinance Projects	Ghazala Mansuri, Xavier Giné, Pedro Olinto, Emmanuel Skoufias
Mar 22-23	Frontiers in Practice: Reducing Poverty through Better Diagnostics
Mar 21	Developing Poverty Maps to Improve Policies: The Experience of Ecuador	Caridad Araujo
Mar 16	Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia: The Role of Agriculture and Agency	Luc Christiaensen
Mar 14	Developing Poverty Maps to Improve Policies	Jennie Litvack
Feb 26	The Effect of Pre-Primary Education on Primary School Performance	Paul Gertler
Feb 6	Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar	Hanan Jacoby
Jan 24	Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia	Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady
2005
Dec 13	Reducing Schooling Inequality via CCT Programs: The Case of PRAF II in Honduras	Pedro Olinto
Dec 8	Micro-Level Estimation of Child Malnutrition Indicators and its Application in Cambodia	Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University)
Dec 6	Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living Standards	Sebastian Martinez
Nov 29	Impact Evaluation Using Secondary Data: Experiences from IEG's Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Bangladesh	Howard White (Independent Evaluation Group)
Nov 22	Conditional Cash Transfer Programs for Child Human Capital Development: Lessons Derived from Experience in Mexico and Brazil	Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Nov 8	Evaluating the Impact of Land Reform Interventions: A Discussion of Methodology	Jonathan Conning and Partha Deb (Hunter University)
Nov 8	Returns to Education in the Economic Transition: 1986-2002	Luca Flabbi, Stefano Paternostro, and Erwin Tiongson
Oct 11	PSIA: Integrated Urban Upgrading in Poor Areas: The Experience of Ribeira Azul, Salvador, Brazil	Judy Baker and Ivo Imparato
July 28	Conducting quality impact evaluations under budget, time and data constraints	Michael Bamberger
Apr 26	Influential Evaluations	Michael Bamberger
Apr 12	Assessing Organizational Performance	Marie-Helene Adrien (Universalia)
Apr 5	Evaluating the Early Child Development (ECD) Program in the Philippines	Jere Behrman, Sharon Ghuman, Socorro Gultiano, Elizabeth King
Mar 23	Designing and Conducting Focus Groups in the Development Context (Beginner to Intermediate)	Janet Mancini Billson (Group Dimensions Intenational)
Mar 22	Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Education Reforms	Erwin H. R. Tiongson & Elena Bardasi
Mar 16-25	Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies within the PAMS Framework	B. Essama-Nssah
Mar 15	CDD Impact Evaluations: Practical Approaches to a Tough Analytic Problem	Robert Chase
Mar 8	Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Trade Reforms	Maurizio Bussolo
Mar 1	Impact Evaluation of Basic Education in Ghana	Howard Nial White
Feb 22	Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Agricultural Market Reforms	Mattias Lundberg
Feb 17	Measuring School Readiness: The Early Development Instrument	Magadalena Janus
Feb 8	PRSP Monitoring Systems: A Review of 5 Countries' Experience	Solveig Buhl
Feb 7	Impact Evaluation: Measuring Effectiveness	Arianna Legovini
Jan 25	Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Land Reforms	Klaus W. Deininger
Jan 18	Designing an Evaluation to Evaluate the Impact of the Ethiopia's Women's Development Initiatives Project on Women's Empowerment	Arianna Legovini
Jan 11	Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Programs	Joseph Valadez
2004
Dec 21	Evaluating Social Development Projects: Integrating the Art of Practice and the Science of Evaluation	Michael Woolcock & Katherine Whiteside
Dec 14	Improving Primary School Education in India: An Impact Assessment of DPEP-Phase I	Elena Glinskaya & Jyotsna Jalan
Dec 7	Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Utility Reforms	Vivien Foster
Nov 30	Impact Evaluations: Early Childhood Development and Nutrition Program in Uganda	Harold Alderman
Nov 11	(A Proposal to Evaluate) the Impact of CrediAmigo and the Expansion of Access to Financial Services in Brazil	Emmanuel Skoufias
Oct 20	Medium and Long Run Effects of Nutrition and Child Care: Evaluation of a Community Nursery Program in Rural Colombia	Orazio Attanasio
Oct 19	Evaluating the Impact of HIV/AIDS Interventions: Challenges, Lessons and Findings	David Wilson (Global HIV/AIDS Program, HDNGA)
Sep 21	The Role of the Labor Market in MakingGrowth Pro-Poor	John Nellis (Center for Global Development)
May 25	Evaluating the impact of infrastructure rehabilitation interventions on household welfare in Georgia- BBL	Michael M. Lokshin and Ruslan R. Yemtsov
May 17	Who cares about corruption? Implications for the design of anticorruption strategies - BBL	Jamele Rigolini (New York University)
May 10-14	Monitoring and social accountability for Roma poverty reduction - WBI Training Event	Aline Coudouel
May 7	Poverty monitoring systems in the context of poverty reduction strategies- PREM Learning Week event	Francesca Bastagli, Aline Coudouel , Valerie Kozel, Keith Mackay and Kaspar Richter
May 6	Poverty assessment: integrating gender analysis- Poverty Analysis Clinic during PREM Learning Week	Pierella Paci, Florencia Casro-Leal and Malcolm Ehrenpreis
May 4	Addressing gender issues in the PSIAs: Cases from Zambia, Chad and Guyana - BBL	Steen Jorgensen, Kene Ezemenari, Nora Dudwick
Apr. 30	PRSPs, PRSCs, with a focus on the challenges of monitoring - Africa Region PREM day	Aline Coudouel, Norman Hicks, Stefan Koeberle
Apr. 26	Roads out of poverty: assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth and poverty reduction- BBL	Pierre-Richard Agénor (WBI and Yale University) and Karim El Aynaoui
Apr. 22	Public sector downsizing: Issues and tools- Training Course	Martin Rama
Apr. 13	Social protection in a crisis: Argentina’s Jefes y Jefas- BBL	Emanuela Galasso
Mar. 16	Cost-benefit analysis as a tool to evaluate the distributional impacts of water sector reform- BBL	Caroline Van den Berg
Mar. 3	PSIA of monetary and exchange-rate reform- BBL	Patrick Conway (University of North Carolina)
Feb. 24	Real and distributive effects of petroleum price liberalization: the case of Indonesia- BBL	Benedict Clements (Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF)
Jan. 13	A suggested framework with application to VAT in Bangladesh - BBL	Shahabuddin M. Hossain (African Department, IMF)
2003
Nov. 18	Small area estimates of welfare impacts: the case of rice price changes in Madagascar- BBL	Johan Mistiaen
Oct. 14	Subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country: Madagascar 2001 - BBL	Nithin Umapathi
Jun. 19	Analysis of institutional barriers to poverty reduction- Poverty Analysis Clinic	S. Shah, R. Nayar, T. Vishwanath, B. Bidani
Jun. 12	Introduction to the comparative development performance (CDP) approach- BBL	Jim Cannon and Fulai Sheng (Conservation International)
Jun. 4	Fostering country ownership of poverty analysis: the January 2002 India poverty workshop- Poverty Analysis Clinic	M. Ravallion, V. Kozel, A. Deaton Chair: Sadiq Ahmed
May 20	Tracking the poverty and distributional implications of macroeconomic performance with PAMS- BBL	Boniface Essama Nssah and Issouf Samake
May 13	A programmatic approach to poverty analysis: what is it, and when is it appropriate?- Poverty Analysis Clinic	R. Shaban and K. Richter Chair: A. Coudouel
Apr. 10	Assessing statistical capacity & improving data quality for development- PREM Learning Week event	Graham Eele & Neil Fantom, M. Belkindas, G.Delaine, L. Ojiambo
Apr. 9	Poverty Assessments: the next generation - Poverty Analysis Clinic during PREM Learning Week	G. Prennushi, T. Haque, K. Richter and Q. Wodon
Mar. 25	Outcomes of power sector reform in ECA: The case of Armenia- BBL	Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee
Mar. 11	Impact of institutional and trade policy reforms: Analysis of Mongolia’s cashmere sector- BBL	Vera Songwe
Mar. 5	Evaluating the poverty impact of projects: Tools for practitioners - B-SPAN video	Judy Baker
Jan. 31	Sampling for household and enterprise surveys - Learning event	Juan Munoz
Jan. 28-30	Multi-topic household survey course - Learning event
Jan. 27	Poverty monitoring in the context of poverty reduction strategies- Learning event	Aline Coudouel, Giovanna Prennushi, Keith Mackay
2002
Dec. 17	The social capital assessment tool (SOCAT) and the local level institutions and social capital study in Bosnia and Herzegovina	P. Poggi and C. Grootaert
Jun. 19	Poverty Monitoring- PREM Learning week event	A. Coudouel, K. Beegle, T. Marchant, B. Rao, K. Sirker, K. Ezemenari, V. Kozel
Jan. 22	Poverty monitoring overview course	G. Prennushi, T. Marchant, K. Scott, P. Petesch, M. Woolcock
2001
Feb. 27 - Mar. 1	Quantitative poverty diagnostic tools for poverty reduction strategies	Presenters
Jan. 11	Clinic on indicators for the Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia country teams	P. Nicholas, G. Prennushi
2000
Sep. 20	Performance indicators: Implications for PRSPs	G. Prennushi, R. Reinikka, A. Simonpietri, C. Humphreys, C. Monga, D. Morrow

Related Section:

See PRSP Learning Events for more materials with a focus on poverty reduction strategies.
See PSIA Training Activities and Materials for additional material from various PSIA training activities
See Poverty Analysis Initiative (PAI) for more courses and seminars aimed at enhancing the capacity of different audiences in poverty measurement and diagnostics, poverty monitoring
and poverty impact evaluation.

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